Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite the sweltering heat, curious crowds of reporters packed the pink courtroom in Port-au-Prince day after day. Armed soldiers in steel helmets surrounded the defendant, who sat erect, dressed in a business suit, seemingly impervious to both the temperature and the allegations against him. Retired Army Colonel Samuel Jeremie, 52, who was once a close aide to former President-for-Life Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier, had been charged with two counts of murder, each punishable by ten years in prison. He was also accused of military misconduct, a crime under Haitian law that could lead...
...discover the truth until he was arrested by French intelligence agents on charges of espionage. After hearing the strange case, seven judges last week sentenced both the hapless accountant and the former dancer to six years in prison. Their "son," Shi Dudu, now 20, was in the Paris courtroom at the time...
After six months of acrimonious courtroom proceedings and nearly 50 hours of deliberation, a jury last week filed into a tiny federal courtroom in Tucson. The eleven defendants, all of them church workers, faced the jury. Then they listened in stunned silence as the court clerk read guilty verdicts against six of them for conspiring to smuggle Salvadorans and Guatemalans into the U.S. Two more were found guilty of harboring or transporting the illegal aliens...
...debate has been highly emotional, and the charged atmosphere did not change in the rarefied air of the wood-panelled Boston courtroom...
...lost his memory. He could not recall having been robbed by anyone. Wearing dark glasses, he pointedly avoided looking at Gotti, who lounged at the defense table, nattily dressed in a dark suit and flashing a gold watch and diamond ring. Asked if he could see anyone in the courtroom who had been involved in the parking dispute, Piecyk still looked away from Gotti and replied, "I do not." Complained one of the prosecutors: "His memory is missing or dead...